Inclusive Education, Readings and Reflections
Open University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 16. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-335-24622-9 (ISBN)
Description
Project Description:
Within the new edition of this important and successful textbook there are a wealth of readings from key documents to shed light on inclusive education, supported by insightful commentaries by the Editors.
Key strengths of the previous edition include a wide philosophical background, extensive range of readings, plenty of examples of inclusion in theory and in practice, clear structure. The authors have expanded several chapters and are including 19 new readings to make this edition even more comprehensive and authoritative than its predecessor.
<b>Project Description: </b>
Within the new edition of this important and successful textbook there are a wealth of readings from key documents to shed light on inclusive education, supported by insightful commentaries by the Editors.
Key strengths of the previous edition include a wide philosophical background, extensive range of readings, plenty of examples of inclusion in theory and in practice, clear structure. The authors have expanded several chapters and are including 19 new readings to make this edition even more comprehensive and authoritative than its predecessor.
Within the new edition of this important and successful textbook there are a wealth of readings from key documents to shed light on inclusive education, supported by insightful commentaries by the Editors.
Key strengths of the previous edition include a wide philosophical background, extensive range of readings, plenty of examples of inclusion in theory and in practice, clear structure. The authors have expanded several chapters and are including 19 new readings to make this edition even more comprehensive and authoritative than its predecessor.
<b>Project Description: </b>
Within the new edition of this important and successful textbook there are a wealth of readings from key documents to shed light on inclusive education, supported by insightful commentaries by the Editors.
Key strengths of the previous edition include a wide philosophical background, extensive range of readings, plenty of examples of inclusion in theory and in practice, clear structure. The authors have expanded several chapters and are including 19 new readings to make this edition even more comprehensive and authoritative than its predecessor.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-335-24622-9 (9780335246229)
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Gary Thomas took up the post of chair in education at Birmingham in 2005. Before university teaching, he worked as a teacher and as an educational psychologist. In higher education at the University of Leeds, at Oxford Brookes University, UWE and University College London his teaching and research have focused on inclusion, special education, and research methodology in education. He has received awards from the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the DfES, Barnardos, the Cadmean Trust, local authorities and a range of other organisations. Most of his funded research has been on inclusive or special education, though his Leverhulme Research Fellowship was awarded to examine the role of theory in education. He currently leads an ESRC thematic seminar competition in the Teaching and Learning Research Programme on the assessment of quality in educational research. He is the founding co-editor of a Taylor & Francis Carfax journal, the International Journal of Research and Method in Education and he is an editorial board member of the British Educational Research Journal.
Gary Thomas took up the post of chair in education at Birmingham in 2005. Before university teaching, he worked as a teacher and as an educational psychologist. In higher education at the University of Leeds, at Oxford Brookes University, UWE and University College London his teaching and research have focused on inclusion, special education, and research methodology in education. He has received awards from the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the DfES, Barnardos, the Cadmean Trust, local authorities and a range of other organisations. Most of his funded research has been on inclusive or special education, though his Leverhulme Research Fellowship was awarded to examine the role of theory in education. He currently leads an ESRC thematic seminar competition in the Teaching and Learning Research Programme on the assessment of quality in educational research. He is the founding co-editor of a Taylor & Francis Carfax journal, the International Journal of Research and Method in Education and he is an editorial board member of the British Educational Research Journal.
Gary Thomas took up the post of chair in education at Birmingham in 2005. Before university teaching, he worked as a teacher and as an educational psychologist. In higher education at the University of Leeds, at Oxford Brookes University, UWE and University College London his teaching and research have focused on inclusion, special education, and research methodology in education. He has received awards from the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the DfES, Barnardos, the Cadmean Trust, local authorities and a range of other organisations. Most of his funded research has been on inclusive or special education, though his Leverhulme Research Fellowship was awarded to examine the role of theory in education. He currently leads an ESRC thematic seminar competition in the Teaching and Learning Research Programme on the assessment of quality in educational research. He is the founding co-editor of a Taylor & Francis Carfax journal, the International Journal of Research and Method in Education and he is an editorial board member of the British Educational Research Journal.
Content
<i>Introduction</i>
<b>PART I: The context - rights, participation, social justice</b>
1 Thomas Paine: The rights of man
2 R.H. Tawney: Equality
3 John Rawls: A theory of justice
4 Martin Luther King - 'I have a dream'
5 Roaf and Bines: Needs, rights and opportunities
6 Sharon Rustemier: Social justice
7 David Hevey - images of difference
8 Goffman: Asylums
<b>PART II: Arguments and evidence against segregation - 1960s to today</b>
9 Dunn: Special Education - Is Much of it Justifiable?
10 Christoplos & Renz: A critical examination of special education programs
11 Weatherley & Lipsky: Street level bureaucrats
12 Leyden: Psychologists and segregation
13 Swann: Psychologists and special education
14 Booth: Integration and participation in comprehensive schools
15 Tomlinson: A Sociology of special education
16 Hegarty et al: Educating Pupils with Special Needs in the Ordinary School
17 ILEA: Educational Opportunities for All (The Fish Report)
18 Biklen: Achieving the Complete School
19 Dessent: Making the Ordinary School Special
20 Anderson & Pellicer: Synthesis of Research on Compensatory and Remedial Education
21 O'Brien & Forest: Action for Inclusion
22 Carson: normalisation and portrayal of disabled people
23 Hegarty: Reviewing the literature on integration
24 Hehir: Changing the Way We Think About Kids with Disabilities
25 Thomas and Loxley: Medical models and metaphors
26 Arguments against segregated schooling: CSIE
27 Oliver: Does Special Education Have a Role in the Twenty-First Century?
<b> PART III: Legislation, reports, statements</b>
28 Public Law 94-142
29 Warnock Report
30 Education Acts 1944-2001
31 European Convention on Human Rights
32 UNESCO's Salamanca Statement
33 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
34 UNESCO: Inclusive Education on the Agenda
35 The Green Paper
36 IPPR: Alternative White Paper
37 British Psychological Society: Inclusive education position paper
38 The Inclusion Charter
39 Wertheimer: International perspectives - a framework for change
<b>PART IV: Inclusion in action</b>
40 Ontario
41 Mainstreaming in Massachusetts
42 Rieser and Mason: Disability equality in the classroom
43 Kirsty Arrondelle - Early integration
44 Jupp: Everyone Belongs
45 Bishopswood School: good practice transferred
46 Rogers: Developing an inclusive policy for your school
47 Newham: Human Rights and School Change
48 Inclusion across America
49 Thomas/Walker: The Making of the Inclusive School
50 Harris: a seven year sentence
51 The Index for Inclusion
<i>Conclusion</i>
<b>PART I: The context - rights, participation, social justice</b>
1 Thomas Paine: The rights of man
2 R.H. Tawney: Equality
3 John Rawls: A theory of justice
4 Martin Luther King - 'I have a dream'
5 Roaf and Bines: Needs, rights and opportunities
6 Sharon Rustemier: Social justice
7 David Hevey - images of difference
8 Goffman: Asylums
<b>PART II: Arguments and evidence against segregation - 1960s to today</b>
9 Dunn: Special Education - Is Much of it Justifiable?
10 Christoplos & Renz: A critical examination of special education programs
11 Weatherley & Lipsky: Street level bureaucrats
12 Leyden: Psychologists and segregation
13 Swann: Psychologists and special education
14 Booth: Integration and participation in comprehensive schools
15 Tomlinson: A Sociology of special education
16 Hegarty et al: Educating Pupils with Special Needs in the Ordinary School
17 ILEA: Educational Opportunities for All (The Fish Report)
18 Biklen: Achieving the Complete School
19 Dessent: Making the Ordinary School Special
20 Anderson & Pellicer: Synthesis of Research on Compensatory and Remedial Education
21 O'Brien & Forest: Action for Inclusion
22 Carson: normalisation and portrayal of disabled people
23 Hegarty: Reviewing the literature on integration
24 Hehir: Changing the Way We Think About Kids with Disabilities
25 Thomas and Loxley: Medical models and metaphors
26 Arguments against segregated schooling: CSIE
27 Oliver: Does Special Education Have a Role in the Twenty-First Century?
<b> PART III: Legislation, reports, statements</b>
28 Public Law 94-142
29 Warnock Report
30 Education Acts 1944-2001
31 European Convention on Human Rights
32 UNESCO's Salamanca Statement
33 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
34 UNESCO: Inclusive Education on the Agenda
35 The Green Paper
36 IPPR: Alternative White Paper
37 British Psychological Society: Inclusive education position paper
38 The Inclusion Charter
39 Wertheimer: International perspectives - a framework for change
<b>PART IV: Inclusion in action</b>
40 Ontario
41 Mainstreaming in Massachusetts
42 Rieser and Mason: Disability equality in the classroom
43 Kirsty Arrondelle - Early integration
44 Jupp: Everyone Belongs
45 Bishopswood School: good practice transferred
46 Rogers: Developing an inclusive policy for your school
47 Newham: Human Rights and School Change
48 Inclusion across America
49 Thomas/Walker: The Making of the Inclusive School
50 Harris: a seven year sentence
51 The Index for Inclusion
<i>Conclusion</i>